A massive famille verte charger with the Romance of the Western Chamber. China, Kangxi
Decorated in the famille verte palette and enameled with three tiers of panels surrounding a central scene, all illustrating the Romance of the Western Chamber, the rim with a frieze of various cell-patterns and auspicious objects, the underside with an underglaze blue artemisia leaf mark within a double circle.
A turquoise-glazed elephant water pot. China, Kangxi
The biscuit depicts an elephant lying on its side. It is covered with a bright turquoise-glaze.
A figure of a Dutchman with a monkey. Kangxi
Among the more engaging Western-style figures to be produced in Dehua is this porcelain model of a Dutchman seated on a fabric-draped platform decorated with birds and flowers. Enticed by a banana held in the man’s left hand, a monkey climbs up the sitter’s right leg.
A Chinese Imari bowl for the French market (Thomas-Auguste Miniac of Saint-Malo). Kangxi, circa 1710
Painted in the Imari palette with underglaze blue, rouge-de-fer and gilding with the coat-of-arms of Miniac, Quaterly: 1 and 4, gules, an eagle displayed argent between five billets of the last, three and four; 2 and 3, azure, a cross cantoned with four crescent or, within a roptwist border enclosed by scrollwork and surmounted by […]
A rare Chinese famille verte bowl decorated with a scene of the Romance of the Western chamber. Very early Kangxi
The bowl is decorated in the famille verte palette with two ladies in garden (very likely Cui Yingying and her mother) among rocks, peonies and banana trees. The interior of the bowl is painted with three boys playing with an helmet. An encircled Chenghua six-character mark to the base.
An unusual Chinese Imari barber basin. Kangxi
The rounded basin finely enameled in the Imari palette with four cartouches enclosing sprays of flowers on the flat rim with a treillis ground. The center of the barber basin is decorated with an official and his attendant in a garden.
Two Chinese biscuit libation cups. Kangxi
In the form of an oval bowl with slightly tapering sides and a broad pouring lip. The rectangular handle is supported by two chilong dragons applied one on either side and another two dragons are applied under the lip. They are each decorated in aubergine enamels, and blue sacrificial.
An unusual Chinese famille verte teapot. Kangxi
The teapot is decorated in the famille verte palette, with flower sprigs done in underglaze blue iron red and green enamels. The spout, handle and decorative pattern in relief on the body of this very unusual teapot are modeled as ropes, painted in aubergine enamels.
A very fine pair of biscuit Buddhist lions. China, Kangxi
The Buddhist lions are decorated in famille verte enamels on the biscuit, each seated on a large plinth. The male lion has a brocade ball at its feet, while the female lion is accompanied by a lion cub. Both lions have stick holders on their backs.
A blanc-de-chine censer with the impressed mark Chenghua. Kangxi
Well potted on a splayed foot, the compressed globular body rising to an everted rim, flanked at the sides with a pair of lion head finials, under a thick glaze, the base impressed with an impressed mark Chenghua.